Forum: culture and revolutions

Cover of the album "Canto al Programa" by Inti-Illimani, Dicap. Larrea Office, 1970.

An afternoon of activities at the Canòdrom in dialogue with the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Path to Design and its transformative perspective on the past, present, and future.

5:00 PM - Live Podcast: Chilean Memories 50 Years After the Coup

A live podcast that recovers collective stories from the Chilean diaspora in Barcelona, centering childhood, women, and gender and sexual dissidences fifty years after the assassination of Salvador Allende.
A sound-based proposal to reconstruct forgotten memories and expand a critical lens on exile and resistance.
Curated by La Colectiva de Chilenas de Barcelona and co-produced by the Bornlab at El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria and OT Canòdrom.

6:30 PM - Participatory Workshop: Radical Design at the Canòdrom. A Workshop with an Insurrectionary Rhythm

6:30 p.m. – Participatory Workshop: Radical Design at Canòdrom: A Workshop with the Rhythm of Insurrection

Curated by Fernando Paniagua, this workshop seeks to connect with the innovative and committed spirit of 1970s Chile and contemporary design and creative practices in Barcelona. It invites participants to reflect and act in the face of today’s challenges.

The goal is to create a dynamic and focused co-creation process between the audience and “revolutionary” design leaders in the city. Using rotating group work structures and drawing inspiration from live musical interventions, participants will generate initial ideas and sketches for transformative actions that address contemporary social issues, resonating with the spirit of the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design.

Format: Intensive Workshop
Target Audience: General public interested in design, activism, art, and social transformation.

Guest Participants:

• Ojalá este mi bici: A musical collective whose powerful self-managed and DIY approach has become the soundtrack of resistance and advocacy in the city. Their music is a sonic counterpoint to awaken consciences. The band Doble AA will participate.

• Enmedio: A collective of artists exploring the transformative power of images and narratives. Their projects are born through collective creation processes always committed to social movements. Their practices include photography, design, storytelling, and disruptive creative actions for social transformation.

• CaldodeCultivo: An experimental collective that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and the generation of creative projects from the ground up, exploring new forms of interaction and cultural production. Their projects deploy devices of counter-propaganda and popular agitation to exercise radical political imagination.

• Makea Tu Vida: A project promoting self-management, DIY, and creativity as tools for empowerment and social transformation on both individual and collective levels. Their approach is practical design for autonomy.

• Nus Cooperativa: A theater company that uses performing arts as a tool for critical reflection and social transformation, exploring urgent themes through powerful narratives and innovative staging. Their theater is performative design for consciousness.

• Proyecto UNA: A writing collective focused on exploring online culture and our relationship with technology from a militant and community-oriented perspective.

  
  

Structure

• Introduction

• Presentation of challenges and group formation

• First round of co-creation and brainstorming

• Musical interlude and quick sharing

• Second round of co-creation and idea development

• Musical interlude and sharing key progress

• Sharing of "prototypes" and brief debate

• Closing and call to action

The objective is to develop a dynamic and collaborative co-creation process between the audience and the city’s “revolutionary” design leaders, working in rotating groups and inspired by musical interventions, to generate initial ideas and sketches of transformative actions addressing current social issues. All of this is in dialogue with the spirit of the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Way to Design, with the participation of Nus Cooperativa, Enmedio, CaldodeCultivo, Makea Tu Vida, Ojalá esté mi bici, and Proyecto UNA.